Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brother, if after all these things happen to you and you're still smiling ... you're in love...
...switches from pictures along the aesthetic line to the kind that satisfy the beast in us. The cause of the transition is a brawny sand-hog (Mac-Murray--and the muscles are real) whom Miss Colbert stumbles into underneath a river so help me. From there on things happen in a fast, furious, and funny...
Said he: "Those who say that the casualties on Tarawa were too high and that such a thing must not happen again should realize that the Marines on Tarawa killed four Japs for each Marine that died. We lost approximately 1,000 Marines but the Japs lost everybody they had. ... In an offensive operation you should expect to lose more than the enemy. ... So we got Tarawa cheaper than we had any right to expect...
...happen to trip...
...often brushed off a new Duke record only to have it grow on me, and the same may happen to "New World a Comin," but I think that as a whole the piece is out of line as a jazz composition and not at all satisfactory from any other standard. In particular, I could not take the piano interludes and clarinet cadenza--which had nothing to do with jazz and appeared to have nothing to do with the rest of the composition...